Chinese Americans After the Exclusion Acts in the United States
Chinese immigrants coming to the United States faced many challenges due to not being naturalized citizens. The difficulties they faced included developing their own ethnic community, being denied equal rights to whites, and being placed into segregated communities. Since they were not considered citizens, they also did not have the right to vote, and own property. Asian immigrants went through many obstacles in order to obtain equal rights and strive as an ethnic community due to the Exclusion Acts in the United States. Asian immigrants faced discrimination in education with segregated schools. There were segregated Chinese schools for Chinese immigrants, and Asian Americans due to the anti-Asian sentiment. The 1880 Revision in the School Law allowed the admission for children to enroll in any school despite a …show more content…
The laws that prevented them from having equal rights as whites influenced the low amount of resources and opportunities for employment as well as education. Asian Americans were dehumanized by American society such as the white workers viewed them as competition because they often did the labor that the Whites did not want and were willing to work under low wages. They portrayed Chinatown their ethnic community as a populated poor socio-economic class, which consisted of prostitutes and gamblers immigrating from China. They took action in their own hands by protesting and creating unions in order to fight for their rights. After the 1965 Immigration Act the Chinese were officially eligible to immigrate to the U.S. in larger populations. The Chinese Americans were persistent enduring the hardship they faced immigrating to the U.S. utilizing the resources they had they were able to persevere and obtain the equal rights that they
Chinese immigrants coming to the United States faced many challenges due to not being naturalized citizens. The difficulties they faced included developing their own ethnic community, being denied equal rights to whites, and being placed into segregated communities. Since they were not considered citizens, they also did not have the right to vote, and own property. Asian immigrants went through many obstacles in order to obtain equal rights and strive as an ethnic community due to the Exclusion Acts in the United States. Asian immigrants faced discrimination in education with segregated schools. There were segregated Chinese schools for Chinese immigrants, and Asian Americans due to the anti-Asian sentiment. The 1880 Revision in the School Law allowed the admission for children to enroll in any school despite a …show more content…
The laws that prevented them from having equal rights as whites influenced the low amount of resources and opportunities for employment as well as education. Asian Americans were dehumanized by American society such as the white workers viewed them as competition because they often did the labor that the Whites did not want and were willing to work under low wages. They portrayed Chinatown their ethnic community as a populated poor socio-economic class, which consisted of prostitutes and gamblers immigrating from China. They took action in their own hands by protesting and creating unions in order to fight for their rights. After the 1965 Immigration Act the Chinese were officially eligible to immigrate to the U.S. in larger populations. The Chinese Americans were persistent enduring the hardship they faced immigrating to the U.S. utilizing the resources they had they were able to persevere and obtain the equal rights that they